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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Trader/analyst Rick Ackerman is feeling a little less nervous about the negative effects of Obama Care.  Ackerman contends, “I think, at this point, we’re blessed with a package that is such a bloated abomination that it’s going

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  I am coming to you from the Midwest, and I have some good news to report on the crop front.  This year looks like it’s going to go much better than last year.  The corn is 10

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   Dr. Jim Willie, Publisher of “The Hat Trick Letter,” says, “We’re leading up to a big event.  We are having breakdowns in numerous structural elements of the financial system.  We’re seeing a chain reaction of breakdown events

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Yale Professor Robert Shiller says, “People who were thinking about buying a house last year are kicking themselves.  Prices are up 12% in a year.  As the market tightens, the attractiveness diminishes, but it’s still attractive.”  Professor

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  The U.S. is temporarily closing embassies in several countries around the Middle East for what is being reported as an al-Qaeda threat.   The State Department says these are just “precautionary steps.”  Embassies involved are in countries such

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Money manager Catherine Austin Fitts says, “You are seeing a tug of war between the new system that’s coming up and the old system that’s struggling and dying.”  Fitts explains it by saying, “Let’s pretend we have

Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  For anyone who sold physical gold in the current precious metal downturn, money manager Peter Schiff says, “There’s going to be a big problem because the gold they sold on the way down isn’t going to be available

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   (Corrected and updated) The top story concerns the Middle East ratcheting up the possibilities of an intensified war in Syria.  Top U.S. military officer General Martin Dempsey warned Congress about the “unintended consequences” of employing some of

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts says, “The country is not being run by the President.  It is being run by spy agencies and private interest groups, Wall Street and military security complex . . .

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Bix Weir is a tireless advocate for manipulation-free gold and silver markets.  Weir says, “They are printing money, and the reason to control the price of gold is to control the perception the U.S. dollar is a

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Fed Chief Ben Bernanke testified in front of the House and Senate this week about the economy and money printing.  The headline in USA Today says it all, “Fed Help Won’t Fade.”  Remember, this is $85 billion

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Wealth manager Chris Casey says, “The bust is the eventual end and, quite frankly, it has to occur based on what the Federal Reserve has done over the last five or six years.  I would envision it’s

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Employers are cutting full-time employees back to part-time to avoid the requirement of providing health insurance under Obama Care.  Trader Karl Denninger says, “As the Obama Administration runs against the economic reality of what they passed, they

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  The big story, once again, comes from Fed Chief Ben Bernanke.  This week, he did a 180 degree about-face and said the easy money policies of the Federal Reserve will go on for the “foreseeable future.”  Last

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  (revised) Money manager Axel Merk says, “There really is no such thing as a safe asset anymore. . . . If you hold cash, the purchasing power of your cash is at risk. . . . What